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Healthy Living for Elders: Scrambling for a Variety of Foods1

Linda Bobroff2

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Unscramble the following words to spell some of the foods that are best for good health. Then write down each of the numbered letters on the blanks below to figure out the message!

Table 1. 

MILK

G O U Y T R

5

4

E H E C E S
1

MEAT AND BEANS

TI P N O E B N A S

2

F S H I

10

B M L A
6

VEGETABLES

E C Y E L R

9

T O O P T A

11 12

Table 2. 

FRUITS

U C J I E

3

P E H A C

7

G A R E S P

14

GRAIN FOODS

N A P K C A E

8

R A B E D

13

Table 3. 

MESSAGE:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Footnotes

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This is document FCS 8615, one in a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Publication date: March 2004. Revised: August 2006. This leaflet was developed with funding from the Florida Department of Elder Affairs in partnership with state, county, and local agencies. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu

2.

Revised by Linda B. Bobroff, PhD, RD, LD/N, professor, University of Florida. Leaflet design by Paulina Wittkowsky, MS, RD, former education assistant, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

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